Talk:Robert Briscoe (politician)

Name

Didn't his family adopt "Briscoe" as an Anglicised version of a Lithuanian name, if so what was the original name? --jmb (talk) 23:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

According to a message on JewishGen Discussion Group SigLists --jmb (talk) 16:19, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

The original family name was thought to have been the same as the relatives the family went to in Dublin . . . CHERRICK.

It had NOTHING to do with BRISK or BRISKER or any of the names assocated with them.

Links

Why does this article have link to here - Emerald Isle Immigration Center?

It appears to be valid. This Emerald Isle Immigration center hosts annual awards called the Robert Briscoe Awards, I added a more direct link to it. Snappy (talk) 01:21, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. RashersTierney (talk) 01:44, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Bewley

I reverted the edit "While in Germany, Briscoe was the victim of anti semitic abuse by the Irish consul for trade in Germany, Charles Bewley." I am unaware of such an event. If you have a source then I would like to see it. Perhaps you are referring to the night of 19 January 1922 when Bewley was thrown out of a (Jewish owned) music hall for language "so strong and so vile as to warrant his forcible ejection". According to page 14 of Mr Bewley in Berlin by Andreas Roth, Bricoe did not see this himself but was told of the event and he wrote to Gavin Duffy about it. Lugnad (talk) 01:01, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Family

"Abraham and Ida had seven children; only two of their sons, Ben and Joe, remained in Dublin. Ben followed his father into politics, while Joe went into the army.[1]

Joe Briscoe joined the army at age of 15 (claiming to be 18) in 1945. He retired in 1993 with the rank of Commandant.[1]"

Is "Ben" meant to be "Bob"? Was "Joe", born in 1930, actually Abraham's son or Robert's son (the latter seems more likely)? It seems to me that Ben and Joe might rather be Robert's sons than Abraham's. Irish Melkite (talk) 17:12, 20 March 2016 (UTC)